From: Alex Gutteridge <alexg@...>
Date: 2012-11-19T23:37:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Magical 57.6 minutes in Time

On 19.11.2012 14:26, Todd Benson wrote:
> irb(main):80:0> RUBY_VERSION
> => "1.9.3"
> irb(main):81:0> system("uname -a")
> Linux krank 3.5.0-18-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 19 10:27:31 UTC
> 2012 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
> => true
> irb(main):82:0> require 'date'
> => false
> irb(main):083:0> Time.new(2012, 11, 3, 12, 00) - Time.new(2012, 10,
> 3, 12, 00)
> => 2678400.0
> irb(main):084:0> _ / 3600 / 24
> => 31.0
> irb(main):085:0> Time.new(2012, 11, 4, 12, 00) - Time.new(2012, 10,
> 4, 12, 00)
> => 2682000.0
> irb(main):086:0> _ / 3600 / 24
> => 31.041666666666668
> irb(main):087:0> Time.new(2013, 1, 4, 12, 00) - Time.new(2012, 12, 4, 
> 12, 00)
> => 2678400.0

If I understand your question (forgive me if not), have a think about 
what happened on November 4th this year. As a hint, I live in the UK and 
the answer is different on my machine...

-- 
Alex Gutteridge